Are basal Ediacaran (635 Ma) post-glacial "cap dolostones" diachronous?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 114-131

  Hoffman, Paul F ^a   Halverson, Galen P ^b   Domack, Eugene W ^c   Husson, Jonathan M ^a   Higgins, John A ^a   Schrag, Daniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cap carbonate; cap dolostone; carbon isotopes; Ediacaran; Neoproterozoic; snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DOLOSTONE; RAYLEIGH DISTILLATION;

CARBON; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DEGLACIATION; DOLOSTONE; EDIACARAN; GLACIOEUSTACY; POSTGLACIAL; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIGRAPHY;

AFRICA; NAMIBIA; OTAVI; OTJOZONDJUPA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34249025818     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.032     Document Type: Article

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